Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls to Plas Bach
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, designated on 26 June 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 June 1998
- Locality
- Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76054, -4.78900
- Cadw reference
- 20063
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 133 Bardsey Island (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Garden walls to rear and front of Plas Bach
History
Garden walls to Plas Bach, built in the 1870s as part of the general rebuilding of farms on the island by the 3rd Baron Newborough.
Exterior
Garden walls, rubble stone with stepped squared stone cappings, enclosing narrow front court and longer rear garden.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Plas Bach, part of a series of walled enclosures which is a characteristic feature of the island landscape.
Nearby in the register
- Plas BachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Court at Plas Bach with attached field walls to SDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls to CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
- CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.